The Wildlife Trusts’ big nature challenge, 30 Days Wild, is back this June

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust is calling on everyone to take on the 30 Days Wild challenge by doing one simple, wild thing each day throughout the month of June. Click here to sign up and to receive a free 30 Days Wild activity pack including a wild bee poster, along with seeds and other fun materials to inspire you to do something wild every single day. You’ll also receive lots of fun activities from The Wildlife Trusts throughout the month to keep you inspired!

30 Days Wild is the UK’s biggest nature challenge run by The Wildlife Trusts and kindly supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery. The annual challenge invites people of all ages to connect with nature every single day for an entire month. Over two million people have taken part over the last nine years, with more than 500,000 people taking on the challenge last year alone.

Popular activities include wildlife-watching, eating outdoors, planting wildflower seeds and listening to birdsong. Other favourite pastimes included bug-hunting, fruit-picking, growing plants and flowers, exploring a nature reserve, creating a mini pond or going on a river walk.

This year, there’s a new twist: 30 Days Wild will take you on a week-by-week adventure moving through five different themes:

1. tune into the senses
2. movement and play
3. learning and discovery
4. helping nature
5. emotional connection to nature

Weekly inspiration on these themes will help guide you, your family and friends through the challenge so that you can meet that 30 day target.

Research has shown that spending time in nature can reduce stress, anxiety and depression, while also improving physical health. We all know how much happier and healthier we feel when connecting with nature – so save the date and sign up today!

Kirstine Bowen, Marketing and Communications Manager for Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, says:

“We hope you will take part in our biggest nature challenge this year – a great excuse to get out and enjoy all that the great outdoors has to offer! Whether tuning into the sound of bird life, taking a stroll through your local woods, discovering one of Wiltshire Wildlife Trust’s many nature reserves, making time to build a bug hotel or bird box, or even taking part in one of the Trust’s volunteer group activities, whatever you choose to do, there are limitless opportunities to connect with nature, whatever your age. Please get involved and tell all your family and friends to join in, too! And when you sign up for 30 Days Wild, don’t forget to share your daily Acts of Wildness photos using the hashtag #30DaysWild on social media.”